Serial Thriller: Angel of Decay - Netflix

Serial thriller launches as a three-part miniseries event on June 7 at
10pm ET/PT with "Serial Thriller: Angel of Decay" a true-crime
story that will propel viewers into the heart of a community that was
terrorized by one of the world's most notorious serial killers. The
eerie outcome may have been ripped from the headlines, but Serial
Thriller for the first time reveals the whole narrative by bringing
together the untold personal stories and recollections of those closest
to the killer as well as the detectives in charge of the investigation.
This unprecedented focus on the forensic detail of the story gives
Serial Thriller a unique window on the devastating ripple effect of a
man who would go on to become one of America's most infamous criminals.
The murderer's identity will be a mystery at first, and while many
true-crime aficionados will be onto the case early on, other viewers
will be left to unravel the clues until his identity is revealed in the
second episode. Each character's vivid storyline serves as a reminder
that behind every crime are real people and lives transformed.

Type: Documentary

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2015-06-07

Serial Thriller: Angel of Decay - Silent film - Netflix

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in
particular, no spoken dialogue). In silent films for entertainment,
dialogue is conveyed by the use of muted gestures and mime in
conjunction with title cards, written indications of the plot and key
dialogue lines. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded
sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical
challenges involved, the introduction of synchronized dialogue became
practical only in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion
amplifier tube and the advent of the Vitaphone system. During the
silent-film era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a
pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small
orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and
organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. The term
silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish
something. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927,
were variously referred to as the “talkies”, “sound films”, or “talking
pictures”. Within a decade, the widespread production of silent films
for popular entertainment had ceased, and the industry had moved fully
into the sound era, in which movies were accompanied by synchronized
sound recordings of spoken dialogue, music and sound effects. The vast
majority of the silent films produced in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries are considered lost. According to a September 2013 report
published by the United States Library of Congress, some 70 per cent of
American silent feature films fall into this category. There are
numerous reasons for this number being so high; most were destroyed on
purpose, but many others have been lost unintentionally. Out of a desire
to free up storage space, film studios would often destroy silent films
decades after their theatrical runs, perceiving them to have lost their
cultural relevance and economic value. Due to the fragile nature of the
nitrate film stock on which many silent films were recorded, many have
deteriorated or have been lost in accidents such as fires (because
nitrate is highly flammable and can spontaneously combust when stored
improperly). Many such films not completely destroyed survive only
partially, or in badly damaged prints. Some lost films, such as London
After Midnight (1927), have been the subject of considerable interest by
film collectors and historians.